Happy 4th Everyone I spun up Old Girls deck this morning https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be Sounded great and no vibrations. I moved Her outside for a photo shoot. I added a 2" ball so She can mover her own trailer around so I don't have to drive the truck on the grass.

Well I said I wasn't going to mow with her just yet, but there was a tempting small patch of long "dry" grass where my Daughter had her car parked that I couldn't resist. I also took a spin around one of the sheds. The cut looks level and no striping.

I extended the test, My Daughter wanted to help mow the back yard, so she got RED, and I followed with Old Girl. 1.5 acres and after the chase scene I now have two mowers to clean up. I'll probably just blow RED off as I will use him tomorrow on the front yard. Old Girl will het a thorough cleaning and re-wax. She mows amazing, As you can see there is a lot of blow by on top of RED's deck, hardly any on Old Girl. And with the dust, I found the small oil leak that I hadn't talked about yet. So the test run was a 100% success!

This morning I am cleaning Old Girl up. Thinking of pulling the deck and check / clean under the cover. The bottom od the deck was almost all black from thrown grease, it is white again after pressure washing.

I don't particularly care for the closed top decks. The three I have dealt with (Craftsman II, Ford LGT145, and the Roper) all have had serious issues under the cover. I split the Ford deck cover which made cleaning much easier. I have not used the Craftsman II deck after a initial cutting. I pulled Old Girls deck after an acre of mowing. I plan to pull the top cover this week and clean and grease it again. When I decide to put her to mowing duty, I will split the deck top cover, and add a filter of some sort to the engine flywheel cover.

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I rest my case on the closed top decks. Unless you pull the top cover off after each mow. crud will build up and rot the deck metal. This is after less than an acre of mowing. Pulling the top cover is not easy.

Yea, when I decide to put her to work mowing I might split the top cover like I did on BMP's deck, that way it can be blown off after mowing. Busy morning, I picked up about a 1/4 ton of rock before it got hot, cleaned up the deck and all the tractors. I think I'll store the deck for now, and put it on before I take her out to show. I could use something with a FEL now.

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Yea, when I decide to put her to work mowing I might split the top cover like I did on BMP's deck, that way it can be blown off after mowing. Busy morning, I picked up about a 1/4 ton of rock before it got hot, cleaned up the deck and all the tractors. I think I'll store the deck for now, and put it on before I take her out to show. I could use something with a FEL now.

I plan on saving up and buying a CUT with FEL the cub I had with the frontend loader I soon as I got a bucket full of dirt the tie rods bent